Whichcreative processes intervene in the execution of divergent thinking tests?

Introduction.Cognitive psychology has been able to identify some of the key creative pro-cesses that encourage original and valuable thinking in problem solving. According to cogni-tive psychology, there is no single mental process that gives rise to creative solutions, but cre-ativity arises from the combined use of these processes. The aim of this study was to inquire into which processes are more strongly related to high performanceon divergent thinking tasks. Method.For this purpose, a total of 122 students between the ages of 12 and 17 (M=14.22; SD=1.44) took part in this study. They completed three different divergent thinking tasks that assess the dimensions of fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration. Three tests were used from the Prueba de Imaginación Creativa, PIC[Creative imagination test] (Artola et al., 2008), as well asthe parallel lines task from the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (Tor-rance, 1974). In addition, they completed the test of Cognitive Processes Associated with Creativity, CPAC (Miller, 2014), which assesses the dimensions: idea generation; metaphori-cal and analogical thinking; idea manipulation; imagery; incubation; and flow. Results.The processes of imagery and flow showed significant but very weak correlations with certain dimensions of divergent thinking. Two studentgroups were established, those with highercreative scores and those with lower; mean difference analysis was then carried out. No differences were found between the two groups of students.Discussion and conclusions.Having found no creative process with greaterimpact on diver-gent thinking, Pringle and Sowden's (2007) hypothesis is discussed. This hypothesisstates that creative people are not characterized by the type of processes they use, but by their ease in shiftingbetweenprocesses.